Gregory S. Gober
Greg Gober
“Serving the client is what we do,” says Greg Gober. “Every angle. Every case. Every time.”
Greg joined the Blaies & Hightower firm in 2007 and focuses on a wide range of litigation including wrongful death, fraud, breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty, commercial litigation, shareholder derivative actions and medical malpractice lawsuits.
During the course of his legal career, Greg has honed his skills in all aspects of litigation from trying numerous cases before juries to drafting briefs on a variety of complex matters in both state and federal trial and appellate courts.
Greg’s ability to win seemingly un-winnable cases emerged in his very first case.
A business owner was involved in a breach of a contractual obligation. The amount owed was significant enough that the owner told Greg that losing the case would financially cripple the company for years. However, the client refused to settle based on principle. The partner in charge of the case viewed it as un-winnable. He assigned it to Greg hoping that it would give him some trial experience. Greg did more than that. He took the case past summary judgment and took it to trial. The case took a week to try and Greg’s client won. Although, the jury found there indeed had been a breach of contract, which was not really contested, Greg convinced the jury that the damages testified to by the opposing party were based on unreliable record keeping and the jury awarded the opposing party zero in damages.
Greg’s education prepared him for these courtroom successes. He attended college in his hometown at Angelo State University and earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1985. Following college, Greg taught geography and Texas history at an intermediate school in Klein, Texas – a suburb of Houston. After several years of teaching, Greg entered law school at Baylor University School of Law. During law school, Greg served as Managing Editor of the Baylor Law Review and published an article concerning unconscionable actions under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act.
Greg graduated from law school in 1993 and began his legal career at a large law firm in Fort Worth, Texas. While there, Greg had the opportunity to work with several of the most respected attorneys in the state of Texas on a variety of high profile, high stakes cases.
But it is his work at Blaies & Hightower that he is most proud of. “We care about our clients here,” he says. “We want them to succeed. It’s our job to put them in a position to win. And that’s what we do here at Blaies & Hightower.”
Email: greggober@bhilaw.com